Kedainiai Off The Beaten Path

It was definetely off the beaten path. I found this living, doggy creature walking on a lawn full of yellow flowers close to the Russian Orthodox church. Try to guess where was his back?

This house on my picture was built of wooden logs. Despite it was neglected I noticed that it was inhabited.

It's user put wooden boards instead of glass in the window overlooking a street. What for or why? Maybe to avoid noise (what noise? there was no traffic there) or to avoid such paparazzi like me (hmm... there were no tourists there) or to avoid thefts? (hmm... what valuables were hidden inside?). Any other ideas?

I paid attention to the two out-of-use, old-fashionable, ceramic insulators put on its front facade just below the roof (enlarge my picture, please). I remember them from my countryside holidays in Poland when I was a kid.

There were a few religious, wooden statues put outdoors on a lawn around the Saint Joseph Roman catholic church. They were high and thin with a kind of roof topped by the holy cross above which made them a kind of small chapels. They looked exactly on right place just by the wooden church.

I paid attention to the thin, relatively high and made of white brick chimeney of the wooden house :-). It was accompanied by the TV antenna :-(

I didn't find many similar chimneys both in Lithuania and neighbouring countries: Latvia and Poland. Most of chimneys were made of red bricks and were not so thin and high.

This balcony of red brick house stood on the square located at the end of main town street - Didzioji. The house was overlooking Nevezis River on the back. There was inscription 1939 above the balcony.

This house looked similar to some older houses in my hometown although there were more German influences than Russian in Tychy.

Look at typical patterns of windows and shutters of old, wooden houses in Kedainiai.

They were sometimes painted in two contrast colours: for example green and white (on my picture) or in one colour but always different than the whole house (brown and yellow for example) or they were not painted for years :-).

Go to Kedainiai to enjoy your eyes !!! Hurry up, to arrive before hordes of tourists and before they paint the city in new, modern patterns (hopefully never!). I was there on time haha.

This wooden, green, ground floor and relatively long house stood on the opposite (that was eastern) side of a street (at # 3).
As I noticed it was inhabited and its inhabitants didn't put wooden boards in place of window glass like their neighbour from the oposite side of a street.

The next house, futher down a street was wooden as well - put its picture on my Kedainiai front page - click here

I paid attention to typical Lithuanian double doors - the wooden external ones and the internal ones with glass windows. And look how they were painted.